Shuart, Reverend

Reverend Benjamin F. Shuart, first pastor of the First Congregational Church of Billings. Had been a frontier missionary in Kansas and North Dakota before coming to Montana the spring of 1882. Shuart helped solicit funding from Frederick Billings for the Church construction on North 27th Street. See Congregationalists Led by B. F. Shuart Pioneers in Field, Billings Gazette, June 30, 1927 and First Billings Minister Recalls, Billings Gazette, April 29, 1928.